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Howard County Council approves budget higher than Ulmans request
Howard County Council on Thursday adopted a $923.5 million annual general fund spending plan that increases allocations for schools and police while not raising income or property taxes. The council voted 4-1 to approve the budget, roughly $2.7 million higher than the proposal made a month ago ...
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NOAA predicts possibly extremely active hurricane season
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration official said Thursday, with expectations of as many as half a dozen major hurricanes. NOAA expects 13 to 20 named tropical cyclones, 7 to 11 of them reaching hurricane status with maximum winds 74 mph or higher. Of those hurricanes, three to six could become major hurricanes of at least Category 3, with winds of at least 111 mph. The forecast ...
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1 Person Dead After Parking Garage Partially Collapses At Mall In Bethesda
BETHESDA, Md. (AP/WJZ) — Montgomery County officials say a parking garage has partially collapsed outside a shopping mall in Bethesda, trapping two people. One of those trapped has ...
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Federal Audit Finds Baltimore City Schools Missused Federal Stimulus Title I Funds
BALTIMORE (WJZ) — A federal audit finds stimulus dollars intended for Baltimore City Schools is spent on things far from the ...
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Michael Felder Talks OTA’s And College Football
Michael Felder of Bleacher Report joins The Scott Garceau Show with Jeremy Conn to discuss the OTA’s going on around the NFL right now. Michael goes on to breakdown the Ravens drafting of Arthur Brown, who is going in for sports hernia surgery. University of Houston running back Charles Sims is talking of either transferring or even entering the supplemental draft in the NFL that is coming ...
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Former Smoker Who Appeared In Anti-Smoking Commericial Is Honored By CDC
Mary Bubala explains you may not know her name but you’ve likely heard her voice. Her name is Terrie Hall, a former smoker who’s known for appearing in anti-smoking TV ads. Hall is being honored by the CDC with a special award for her courage in telling her story. ';Everywhere I go I’m recognized as that lady on TV,'; said Hall. Hall started smoking at age 17. Now, ...
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Obama outlines plans to limit use of U.S. drone strikes close Guantanamo
Barack Obama outlined plans on Thursday to limit the use of U.S. drone strikes against extremists abroad and took steps aimed at breaking a deadlock on closing ...
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Ravens Insider Ray Lewis pledges to climb Mt. Kilimanjaro
has apparently found his next challenge. The former Ravens linebacker said today on his Twitter page that he will climb Mt. Kilimanjaro in Tanzania to raise money and awareness for clean water projects in East Africa. Lewis will undertake the mission, which he has billed TackleKili, next month. Kilimanjaro is the highest free-standing mountain in the world and is over 19,000 feet above sea ...
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Body of Hyattsville man found in Edgewater creek
White Marsh Creek in Edgewater, authorities said Thursday. Natural Resources Police spokesman Sgt. Brian Albert said the man was identified as William Eckert, 70. He said Eckert's wife was unable to reach him on his cell phone Wednesday evening while he was cleaning his boat at Holiday Hill Marina, and she asked a friend to check on him, he said. The friend called 911, Albert ...
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Sun Investigates Some Baltimore City workers rack up overtime
It’s been a busy year so far for Audrey Dyer-Brown, collections supervisor at the city Department of Public Works. Her job duties have ballooned - and so has her ...
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At least 1 trapped in mall parking garage collapse
Montgomery County officials said a parking garage has partially collapsed outside a shopping mall in Bethesda, and at least one person is ...
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Dads Memorial Day letter is reminder of sacrifices
Nearly five decades ago, a father who was disappointed by the lack of turnout at a Memorial Day ceremony wrote a letter to his five sons about honor, duty and patriotism. That letter was published and, now, he's hoping a new generation will take time to ...
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Obama says US at crossroads in terror fight
President Barack Obama in a major counterterrorism speech Thursday defended the American drone program, saying that despite the controversies around it, the strikes are legal and save ...
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Visitors See Rare Agave Bloom At The Rawlings Conservatory In Baltimore
BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Something strange is happening at the Rawlings Conservatory in Druid Hill Park. At first, you might think of the little shop of horrors, but ...
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CSX Maryland move forward on Baltimore intermodal site
CSX hopes to start construction this fall on an intermodal facility in Southwest Baltimore. Plans for Baltimores intermodal facility took another step forward Thursday as the states transportation agency approved entering into a lease with CSX Transportation Inc. for property along proposed site. The Maryland Transportation Authority signed off on starting negotiations for an airspace lease with ...
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TSA seizes stun gun from Frederick man at BWI
Transportation Security Administration officer who detected the combination stun gun/flashlight in his luggage. Maryland Transportation Authority Police confiscated the weapon and cited its owner on a state weapons charge. There was no impact to airport operations and the man was allowed to catch his flight. Over the last three weeks, four stun guns have been confiscated at BWI, according to ...
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Calvert Cliffs nuclear unit restarts
Calvert Cliffs nuclear power plant in southern Maryland restarted one of its two reactors Thursday after fixing the mechanical problem that caused its shutdown two days earlier, a Constellation spokesman said. Unit 2 reconnected to the regional electric grid at 8:50 a.m. after workers fixed a faulty coupling on a pump feeding water into one of two steam generators at the plant, said Kory ...
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Anne Arundel debate over so-called rain tax flows into June
In Anne Arundel County, where new stormwater fees have generated national attention amid criticism of Maryland's so-called "rain tax," the debate over how much to charge property owners will continue into June. County Council members were scheduled to vote on a series of alterations to its fee structure Thursday, but the councilman sponsoring the changes, Crownsville Democrat ...
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Balto. Co. Council approves $2.8 billion budget
Baltimore County Council members on Thursday formally adopted a county budget they say focuses on basic services while keeping the county's property tax rate flat for the 25th year in a row. The council unanimously approved County ...
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Sports Verdict Who’s The NBA’s Biggest Villain LeBron James Vs. David Stern
With the Heat set to square off against the Pacers, the question on the mind of every fan is what, if anything, can manage to topple LeBron and his quest for a second title? As the feats, and really the legend of LeBron James grows ever larger, he has begun to transcend the game itself, much to the dismay of many fans. Consequently, is he, or Commissioner David Stern, the greatest villain ...
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Auction of Haussners building in Highlandtown canceled
The auction of the Haussner's building along Eastern Avenue in Highlandtown was cancelled on Thursday Alex Cooper Auctioneers postponed an auction of the landmark Haussners Restaurant property in Highlandtown on Thursday after a prospective buyer initiated negotiations to purchase the building in a private sale, auctioneer Paul Cooper said. Cooper declined to discuss specifics about the ...
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Towson to break ground on $28M Harford County building
Project manager Jonathan Lindhorst, left, and Towson University in Northeastern Maryland Director John Desmone at the site of a future $28 million building. Towson University is kicking off construction of a new Harford County building with a ground breaking ceremony May 30. The $28 million, 60,000-square-foot academic building will house a partnership program between Towson and Harford ...
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Police 2 additional arrests in UK hacking death
Police made two additional arrests Thursday as part of their investigation into the slaying of a soldier killed in Woolwich, London Metropolitan police said on the department's official Twitter ...
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Hurricane forecast Another busy Atlantic season
COLLEGE PARK, Md. -- Federal forecasters are predicting yet another busy hurricane season.Thursday's outlook calls for 13 to 20 named storms, 7 to 11 that strengthen into hurricanes and 3 to 6 that become major hurricanes.The prediction by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is more than what's considered an average Atlantic season. Last year was the third-busiest ...
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T. Rowe Price takes active role in directors pay
T. Rowe Price has more than $600 billion in assets under management. Most folks wouldnt think of the folks at T. Rowe Price Group Inc. as agitators, but Wall Street may not agree. A Wall Street Journal story this week mentioned the Baltimore money manager as one of the mutual fund companies shaking up corporate America by wanting companies to tie the pay of their board members to how those ...
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Maryland’s Greater Baltimore residents are asked to ‘imagine’
Imagine what the world, and more specifically your local community, might be like 50 years from now, in 2060 to be exact. How will our lives have changed? How will transport have changed? Urban planning? City amenities? These are some of the questions residents of Greater Baltimore are being asked to think about.
The Imagine 2060 project is an interesting intellectual exercise designed to engage the community in a workshop aimed at developing ideas for future developments in the areas of land use and transport. The project is interesting because ideas are not constrained by a budget and the imagination can therefore take flight. Read more
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